The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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